Yoshikazu Tanaka

Yoshikazu Tanaka founded GREE, Inc. in December 2004, and serves as the Company's chairman and chief executive officer. Before founding GREE, Yoshikazu worked at Sony Communication Network Corporation (now Sony Network Communications Inc.) and Rakuten, Inc. (now Rakuten Group, Inc.) While at Rakuten, he started developing the social network GREE in his spare time. Yoshikazu earned a bachelor's degree in law from Nihon University in 1999. He was appointed chairman in September 2014.